There will be peace on earth when there is peace among the world religions.
HANS KUNGFor many people, the pope is still, to a certain extent, a positive role model and a moral force, although others feel that this aspect has suffered greatly.
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Everyone agrees the celibacy rule is just a Church law dating from the 11th century, not a divine command.
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A human person is infinitely precious and must be unconditionally protected.
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We should think about whether canonizations, which are an invention of the Middle Ages, still make sense today.
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Alluding to hell is a warning that a person can completely neglect his purpose in life. I don’t believe in an eternal hell.
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A Church which abandons the truth abandons itself.
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Hundreds of millions of human beings on our planet increasingly suffer from unemployment, poverty, hunger, and the destruction of their families.
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If priests were allowed to marry, if this would be an optional thing, and if he could have wife and children, he would certainly have less temptation to satisfy certain sexual impulses with minors.
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There will be no peace among the nations without peace among the religions. There will be no peace among the religions without dialogue among the religions.
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For many people, the pope is still, to a certain extent, a positive role model and a moral force, although others feel that this aspect has suffered greatly.
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Religion often is misused for purely power-political goals, including war.
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God’s love does not protect us from suffering. God’s love protects us in the midst of suffering.
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In the event that my illness worsens, I want to have a guarantee that I can die in a dignified manner. Nowhere in the bible does it say that a person has to stick it out to the decreed end. No one tells us what “decreed” means.
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It is not certain that everything is certain, neither is it certain that everything is uncertain.
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At the same time we are aware that our various religions and ethical traditions often offer very different bases for what is helpful and what is unhelpful for men and women, what is right and what is wrong, what is good and what is evil.
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Humanity today possesses sufficient economic, cultural and spiritual resources to introduce a better global order.
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